مَسَخْ

masoxN * and ↓ masiyxN , (L, K,) [the former originally an inf. n., and therefore used as sing. and dual and pl. without alteration, though musuwxN is used as a pl. by late writers, (see De Sacy's Chrest. Ar., ii. 273,)] the latter of the measure faEiylN in the sense of the measure mafoEuwlN , (L,) Transformed, or metamorphosed, into a worse, or more foul, or more ugly, shape. (L, K.) Ex. AljaAn~u masoxu Aljin~i The Jánn, which are slender serpents, are the transformed of the Jinn, or Genii; like as certain persons of the Children of Israel were transformed into apes. [See Kur, ii. 61.] (L, from a trad.) ― -b2- Also, the ↓ latter, Deformed; rendered ugly in make, or form. (K.) Hence, some say, the appellation of Ald~aj~aAlu ↓ Almasiyxu [more commonly AlmasiyHu Ald~j~An , q. v.]. (TA.) ― -b3- Also, the same, (tropical:) A man having no beauty. (S, K.) ― -b4- And (assumed tropical:) Weak and stupid: (K:) also an epithet applied to a man. (TA.) ― -b5- And (assumed tropical:) Flesh-meat, (S, L, K,) and fruit, (L, K,) that has no taste; tasteless; insipid: (S, L, K:) or, applied to food, that has no salt nor colour nor taste: and sometimes, that is between sweet and bitter. (L.) El-Ash'ar Er-Rakabán, of the tribe of Asad, a Jáhilee, says, addressing a man named Ridwán, (L,) masiyxN maliyxN kalaHomi AlHuwaA ri laA A^anota HulowN walaA A^anota mur~N [ Tasteless, insipid, like the flesh of a new-born camel, thou art not sweet nor art thou bitter ]. (S, L.)